Off season vegetables in Sikkim
NBS Report
Gangtok April 12: Believe it or not!!!!!!
But from now on you would also be able to eat the off season vegetables in the Himalayan State Sikkim Upper Sadam , Chemchey that covers
almost 40 beneficiaries.
The hybrid seeds is provided by ATMA and
the cultivation shall be done with organic manure like urbara Shakti produced
from the garbage. The farmers are also given training on technology
dissemination.
A Field Day cum Crop Cutting of Barley
was conducted by ATMA, South on April 10 in presence of all BTMs of South District and Kamal Thatal
who encouraged the farmers for cultivation of cereals grains and vegetables. During
crop cutting, 9m2 of barley field was taken for the programme from
which 6.610Kg of seeds were weighed by using weighing balance. From this
finding it was estimated that 3672.175Kg of seeds can be produced from 10,000m2
of land excluding 50% moisture content i.e at the ratio of 1:20 Kg. At the end
of the programme Dy. PD South ensured the farmers to keep all seed for
cultivation in next season in various places for the production of seeds in
large scale for further uses.
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